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Farkhad Akhmedov

Person of interest · Oligarch · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Farkhad Akhmedov is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Akhmedov Farhad Teymur · Akhmedov Farkhad · Akhmedov Farkhad Teimurovych · Farchad Achmedow · Farhad AHMEDOV · 11 more...				[sources]
Other name	Akhmedov Farkhad · Farhad AHMEDOV · Farhad Ahmadov · Farkhad Teimur Ogly AKHMEDOV · Farkhad Teimurovich Akhmedov · 9 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-09-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Baku · Baku Azerbaijan · Baku, Azerbaijan				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Russia				[sources]
Country	Russia				[sources]
Citizenship	Azerbaijan · Russia				[sources]
Country of birth	Azerbaijan				[sources]
First name	Farhad · Farkhad				[sources]
Last name	AHMEDOV · AKHMEDOV · Akhmedov · Q80432164				[sources]
Middle name	Ogly				[sources]
Second name	Teimur · Teymur				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4073083				[sources]
Position	chief executive officer (1993-2012) · member of the Federation Council of Russia (2004-2007) · member of the Federation Council of Russia (2007-2009) · substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2007-2010) · Бізнесмен, засновник «Tansley Trading»				[sources]
Education	Candidate of Economic Sciences · Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology				[sources]
Source link	prod-upp-image-read.ft.com				[sources]
Last change	2024-11-19	Last processed	2024-11-19	First seen	2022-01-01

Descriptions

Farkhad Akhmedov is a Russian businessman involved in the energy sector and in Russian local politics. He founded Tansley Trading, which supplied equipment to Russian gas producers and became a minority shareholder in Nortgas, an oil and gas company in Siberia, as well as Chairman of Bechtel Energy. He is close to the Kremlin and is a leading businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Function: Businessperson involved in the energy sector and in Russian local politics; founder of Tansley Trading

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Mentioned in 2018 CAATSA report on Russian oligarchs

— Russian Oligarch/Billionaires Database non-official source, 2024-04-14

Businessman, politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Federation Council of Russia	-	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · UK	The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019	2022-04-13	-
Global Affairs Canada	Russia / Russie	-	-
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs	Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), annexes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 14a, 15, 15a, 15b, 25 and 33	2022-04-13	2023-09-26
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Russia	2022-04-13	-
National Security and Defense Council	726/2022	2022-10-19	2032-10-19

Data sources

Wikidata Entities of Interest3,963

Persons of interest profiles from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions17,698

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · NSDC

UK FCDO Sanctions List4,670

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO

Russian Oligarch/Billionaires Database166

A list of billionaires and oligarchs from CIS countries, most notably the Russian Federation.

OpenSanctions · non-official source

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List4,410

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets6,266

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

ACF List of War Enablers7,941

A list of Russian decision-makers from government and business composed by ACF/FBK, the anti-corruption organization founded by Alexei Navalny

Russia · ACF · non-official source

Forbes 2021 List of Russian Billionaires100

Based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2021.

Russia · Wikipedia · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories425,625

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,449

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes

Switzerland · SECO

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata377,203

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ua-nazk-person-1895 · NK-PvwKrmHbxykYbRsNnV7wi7 · eu-fsf-eu-7859-7 · ua-nabc-person-1895-akhmedov-farkhad-teimurovich · acf-7bef4d6aea14fc5cc5371e85c6efd5bde2256a30 · gb-hmt-15263 · ca-sema-1-part-1-787-ru-farkhad-akhmedov · gb-fcdo-rus1311 · eu-tb-logical-138054 · ua-nsdc-17603-ahmedov-farhad-tejmurovic · ca-sema-df5f8caced1ebf6302f15e0f99c363700194ff02 · ch-seco-52913 · ca-sema-russia-1-787 · acf-74267f754c13e06a32a94422b9ea5b9fe1d8afe8 · mc-freezes-e663f74de42ce6cfd875bd8174bccc82d0de2262 · ca-sema-1-787-ru-farkhad-akhmedov · fr-ga-4606

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